Seven current and former California Assembly and Senate members were accused of sexual misbehavior and other harassment over the past decade, according to documents released Friday by the Legislature. Here are details about each lawmaker gleaned from the documents, some of which were heavily redacted to protect the identities of accusers and other parties.

Travis Allen

Travis Allen is a financial planner from Huntington Beach who has served in the Assembly since 2012 and is running for California governor.

Travis Allen (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

The harassment disclosures released Friday included one from an apparent legislative staffer against Allen. She reported that she’d been made uncomfortable by Allen standing too close to her, by touching his foot to hers when they were sitting together, and by him approaching her from behind and squeezing her shoulders with his hands. The staffer noted that a female co-worker had said that Allen prolonged his grip on her hand after a handshake.

Allen, a Republican, dismissed the complaint.

“The release of this unsubstantiated complaint is a political attack by a Democrat-led committee,” Allen said in an emailed statement. “I’m sure I’ve shaken many people’s hands, tapped many people on the shoulder and have even tapped people’s feet accidentally. But there has never been anything in any of my actions that has been inappropriate, and nor will there ever be.”

Autumn Burke

A Democrat from Inglewood serving her second two-year term in the Assembly, Autumn Burke faced a staff member’s complaint that included the claim that she participated in what a letter from the Assembly human resources department called “an inappropriate conversation” with capitol office staff “regarding anal sex.”

Autumn Burke (AP photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

Burke admitted the conversation took place and was reminded by HR in February 2017 of the need to “maintain a professional environment in the office at all times consistent with Assembly policies,” according to the letter.

On Friday, Burke responded to the documents’ release by saying the claim was filed by a “disgruntled former staff member” who also participated in the “after-hours conversation in which my staff member shared a personal story about his experiences as a young gay man with me and a group of co-workers.” Burke said she “took full responsibility for my part.”

Bob Hertzberg

A Democrat from Van Nuys who is in his first four-year term in the state Senate — after serving in the Assembly from 1996 to 2002, the last two years as Assembly speaker — Bob Hertzberg has been known for greeting people with hugs. In December, three women told The Sacramento Bee that Hertzberg’s lingering embraces had made them uncomfortable.

Bob Hertzberg (File photo by David Crane/Los Angeles News Group)

Friday, it was revealed that Hertzberg was warned in 2015 after an employee complained that he pulled her close, began dancing with her and singing her a song. The secretary of the Senate and the Senate’s employment attorney met with Hertzberg, who was told that the behavior made the staff member uncomfortable and should not be repeated. He also was reminded of the Senate’s policy against harassment.

Steve Fox (AP photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

Steve Fox

Former Assemblyman Steve Fox, a Democrat from Palmdale, served only one term in the Assembly, beginning in 2012. But during that time, the Assembly paid out $225,000 to settle a pair of claims against him.

In July 2015, the Assembly settled with Kristina Zahn. Zahn alleged that she was forced to do unpaid campaign work while working at Fox’s Lancaster law office and was not paid overtime. When she later worked at his district office in Palmdale, Zahn said, she still had to work, unpaid, in Fox’s law office. Without conceding any guilt, the Assembly paid $11,000 to Zahn and $99,000 to her attorney. Fox’s law office agreed to pay another $15,000 to Zahn.

In April 2017, the Assembly settled with Nancy Kathleen Finnigan, Fox’s former legislative director, who said he had exposed himself to her and created a hostile work environment. According to the documents released on Friday, the Assembly agreed to pay $35,000 to Finnigan and $65,000 to her attorney.

Fox was defeated by Assemblyman Tom Lackey, R-Palmdale, in 2014 and 2016.

Rod Wright

In April 2010, former State Sen. Rod Wright, a Democrat from Inglewood, was found to have used “coarse and vulgar language” to his staff, and was issued a “sternly worded admonishment” from the Senate Rules Committee.

Rod Wright (File photo by Stephen Carr, Torrance Daily Breeze/SCNG)

This wasn’t the last time Wright would run afoul of the rules: In 2014, he was convicted of two counts of perjury, one count of filing a false declaration of candidacy and five counts of fraudulent voting in elections in 2008 and 2009. Although Wright claimed he lived in his Inglewood-area district, prosecutors successfully argued that he actually lived in Baldwin Hills. Although sentenced to 90 days in jail, he ended up serving only 70 minutes.

Tony Mendoza

Tony Mendoza (AP photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

Tony Mendoza, D-Artesia, was already facing harassment accusations as he sought election to a second term in the state Senate, after earlier serving six years in the Assembly. He has been on leave from the Senate while being investigated over allegations he behaved inappropriately toward young women working in his office and fired a staff member who reported the behavior.

A letter revealed Friday, apparently from Senate HR in 2010, details accusations that he made a staffer uncomfortable with hugs, “flirtation” conversation and invitations to lunch, dinner and drinks. The staffer was said to be “afraid to say ‘no’ or say she is uncomfortable for fear of retaliation” by Mendoza.

Raul Bocanegra

In November, Democrat Raul Bocanegra became the first California office-holder to resign during the wave of sexual harassment allegations in Sacramento. He had represented the northeast San Fernando Valley in the Assembly from 2012 to 2014 and again since 2016.

Raul Bocanegra (AP photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

Released Friday were letters from then-Assembly Rules Committee Chairman Ted Lieu (now in the House of Representatives) wrapping up the investigation by an outside law firm of the original accusation against Bocanegra: that he had groped a woman at a party in a Sacramento nightclub when both were legislative staffers in 2009. Bocanegra was suspended without pay for three days and ordered into counseling and training about proper workplace behavior.

Since Bocanegra’s resignation, Matt Dababneh, also a San Fernando Valley assemblyman, resigned over charges of sexual misconduct. No documents related to Dababneh were included in Friday’s release.

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